Charles Forsman Quotes

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.

I'm happy to buy something that was previously owned, as long as I can get it conveniently.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

I think some people need the assurance of people around them and ideas worked out in advance. I think it keeps me an edge that to be creative on the spot. You have to think of things to do when you meet people. You limit your choices from the beginning. So I don't bring a lot of lenses, cameras, all these elements that can help the picture to a shooting. You confine yourself to, say, one room and you just make it work. You become very creative in that little space. You have left a lot of other options out of the game.

I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

Everything good is on the highway.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.

I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.

Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill

A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable